A glass full of leaves. (Oh, a mojito, I am told...)
Being someone whose idea of a good, stiff drink is a cold Diet Coke, I am often amused by the pervasiveness of alcohol in our social culture, and I am espeically amused by the names of cocktails. For today’s poem, use a list of drink names (this is just one of many you can find online) and copy down 5 or 6 phrases. Here are 6 of my favorites from the linked site:
Fuzzy Logic
Heart Stopper
Snowball
Silver Bullet
Scarlet O’Hara
Milk of Amnesia
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Try to write a poem using at least three of the phrases but NOT as the names of drinks.
If you want a bit more of a challenge, write the poem ABOUT drinking, but still using the phrases in another context.
Bottoms up!
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This is a fun prompt. Here’s my poem:
http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/11/scarlets-bushwacker-poem.html
Thank you for the inspiration!
I love this prompt! (I have actually written many an intentionally BAD poem–as in, humorous–using drink names, some terribly raunchy. The drink names, not my poems. Um, er, except that, yes, given the drink names…there was some bawdiness.)
This was lots of fun to write! Here’s my poem: http://jprescottpoetry.blogspot.com/2011/11/coke-on-hot-day.html
Finally got around to this one too! Wendigo Comes
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